Tuesday, May 5, 2015

soaps by Steso

I am so excited! I received a wonderful gift from a very talented soaper and my friend Tatsiana! (here is her blog). She sent me 6 of her handmade soaps, all of them are amazing. Each soap is nicely wrapped in a matching box.

Here is Tatsiana's Lavender soap with 15% mango batter:

This is her castile type soap with 95% olive oil and 2% olive leaf powder, with the addition of goat's milk. The soap is scented with a blend of essential oils: cypress, peppermint, marjoram, basil, grapefruit and lavender.

This one is made with calendula petals, it smells and looks truly fantastic!

Here is another rimmed soap, this time it's all cold-processed. It was created in our "duel" with Tatsiana where we challenged ourselves to make a cold-process rimmed soap. This one is scented with vanilla:﻿

And another rimmed soap - the rim mimics the look of crocodile skin. This bar of soap is made with kelp powder and it's scented with a blend of essential oils.

The 6th soap is made with an unusual recipe: 55% extra virgin coconut oil, 25% mango butter and 20% shea butter, superfatted at 18%. It is unscented but it smells very nice. I love its look too! I am really curious to try this one.

But that's not all! I've also received this amazing soap cutter made by Tatsiana! It is designed to cut soaps made in slab as well as log molds.

It's wonderful, isn't it?

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P.S. You can read about our meeting with Tatsiana and see a few soaps which we made together here.

Wow amazing.... I tried made this rimmed soap before i found you blog and i don't know that it is a special technique in CP soap. Of course it failed because i don't know that this technique requires special cutter. I made it by scroll a square and thin soap after unmold but still soft enough to scroll it with a pipe. Do you have the video tutorial of this technique? Thank you

Unfortunately, I don't know of any video tutorial on this technique. You can check 2 posts with tutorials in steso's blog:http://bysteso.blogspot.com/2015/07/blog-post_22.htmlhttp://bysteso.blogspot.com/2015/03/blog-post.html

I am loving these rimmed soaps! I am trying to wrap my brain around how they are created!

On Tatsiana's alligator rimmed soap, do you know the process of coloring the "skin" whereby a two-tone effect is created - the lower area of the skin seem to be darker. Or is it just the lighting in the photography?

It's a double rim on Tatsiana's alligator soap, and it's textured - I mean the rim was poured on a textured mat. In this case the rim is made of melt and pour glycerin soap. Tatsiana has a few tutorials on how she makes her soaps:http://bysteso.blogspot.ca/2015/07/blog-post_23.htmlhttp://bysteso.blogspot.ca/2015/07/blog-post_22.html